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I thought everyone here on HN, somewhere, somehow, has written his own CMS!

I have used Drupal and went through the pain to understand it (took about twenty days to become proficient). It can do what you want, but got a lot of other limitations. If PHP is your way, I would go with a framework, either Kohana, CodeIgniter or CakePHP in that order and hack the rest.

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No experience with Kohana or CodeIgniter, CakePHP looks pretty good to me, very clean code and an extremely active community to go with it.

Yes, Community support is very important when one thinks selecting a framework.

All three of them are very good with active communities. Kohana is a fork of CodeIgniter. I personally use mostly CodeIgniter as CakePHP has just too much 'magic'! I always prefer something lighter that I can extensively add to it rather than the other way round.

Codeigniter is easily one of the better PHP frameworks, with a very easy learning curve. The documentation is fantastic and will help you get off the ground very quickly. If you're comfortable with PHP and MVC coding, then you could also check out Yii.

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